Turns out the speed didn’t stay quite that high so the download will finish sometime this evening. No biggie, since the only CD-R’s I have in the office are 650MB anyway. I would have had to wait until I go home and grab a 700MB and burned tomorrow if it had finished by 5PM. 🙂…
So I went to see if I could start a download of Knoppix this morning and discovered that I was getting a whopping 1.9KB/second download speed on the CD image. Gee at that rate I’d be ready to burn the thing sometime next week! A quick switch of mirrors has me at a much better…
So I’ve been trying out both the free version and the Status version of MSGTAG. Here’s my thoughts on the subject. Does it do what it sets out to do? Yes, when you download the program and enable tagging, there’s an HTML footer added to the end of your messages. In the free version it’s…
Fred Langa has a good article up over at Information Week about small and zero-footprint Linux distros.. I may have to download one of the “run from CD” versions so I have something I can play with at work during slow times. It’s almost summer, once we get through our big annual meeting in late…
Here’s the background. There is one thing in our member database that you absolutely cannot do. It completely messes up everything from billing, to accounting, to well, everything! Let’s call this action “XYZ”, shall we? Now, keep in mind that not doing “XYZ” is one of the first things I tell people when they start…
Looks like Tony has left Penguin Shell. Someone else will be writing that particular Lockergnome newsletter. I can understand what Tony had to say about it, and I can also understand what Chris has to do as a businessman, and I wish them both the best of luck in their separate directions! Thanks for all…